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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
A preview of the RNC speech by Peter Thiel, the eccentric investor who is unlike anyone else in tech — The eccentric investor is not like anyone else in tech. — Okay, I will just say what pretty much everyone in tech thinks, even if they never seem to be able to say it out loud …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg discusses Facebook's 10-year plans to improve internet access, the importance of AI, plans for VR, and the challenges of AR — Mark Zuckerberg on his plan to bring the internet to every human on earth — By nearly any measure, Facebook has had a remarkable year.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Inside the inaugural test flight of Facebook's first internet drone, Aquila — Inside the test flight of Facebook's first internet drone — At 2AM, in the dark morning hours of June 28th, Mark Zuckerberg woke up and got on a plane. He was traveling to an aviation testing facility in Yuma …
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Thanks:@sarahaasullivan| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: Smartwatch shipments fall for the first time; Apple only company in top 5 to decline — The smartwatch market has hit its first bump, and it's all Apple's fault. Vendors shipped a total of 3.5 million smartwatches worldwide last quarter. This Q2 2016 figure is down 32 percent …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Moto Z review: huge price increase, no 3.5mm headphone jack, slow OS updates, and lame modules make it hard to recommend — The first Moto flagship under Lenovo's rule isn't a compelling one. — Under Google, Motorola was one of our favorite OEMs. The company delivered bang-for-your-buck hardware …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
US shuts down biggest torrents site KickassTorrents, arrests owner after Apple hands over his personal details — With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.
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See also Mediagazer| Greg Hartrell / Official Android Blog: |
Google Play Books debuts Bubble Zoom, which uses machine learning to detect and expand speech bubbles in comic books, starting with some Marvel and DC volumes — Whether it's reading up on the origins of Justice League or enjoying a reboot like Invincible Iron Man, we all love our heroes …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google Cloud Platform debuts 2 machine learning APIs in beta: a natural language API that lets devs perform sentiment & syntax analysis, and a Cloud Speech API — The Natural Language API enables sentiment and syntax analysis, as well as entity recognition.| Tinder: |
Tinder launches Tinder Social, a feature that lets groups plan nights out and “match” with other nearby groups that are also going out — Get ready to roll. Your night just got better. — Tinder has always been about getting you out of the house to meet someone new.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
Apple fixes Stagefright-like vulnerability, which allows attackers to compromise devices via a malicious image, in latest updates to iOS, OS X, tvOS, watchOS — RCE flaw exploitable via image files affects many products — Apple has fixed five issues in OS X and iOS that pose … | Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Corning unveils Gorilla Glass 5, claims 0.6mm thick glass will not break 80% of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters — Glassmaker Corning just unveiled its newest version of Gorilla Glass, the chemically strengthened super glass that dozens of consumer electronics makers use in their devices.
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Periscope adds “Replay Highlights” automatic trailers for broadcasts, ability to view Periscope feeds within embedded Tweets — There are hundreds of millions of live and replay broadcasts on Periscope, and more get added everyday. We're introducing three new features today …
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